Goldsmith, TX 79741 Frost Dates
Goldsmith, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/19, about 203 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 235 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Goldsmith, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Goldsmith's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Goldsmith's last frost
03/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Goldsmith against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 235 frost-free days, Goldsmith places 9,656 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,037 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79741's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Goldsmith can differ from the 79741 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Goldsmith's frost date answer different questions.